Architect Archive
Thread: anyone else notice the stealth nerf to medium houses???Item counts need fixing!
thats right. Mediums cost 2 lots and now smalls cost 2 lots. Smalls now hold the same amount as mediums! Now the only advantage to a medium house is that some of them have stairs.
The friday feature just highlights a big problem in houses.
STORAGE!
Storage depends on the number of lots. ok, I notice the lots for a small have changed. They now take 2 lots, giving it 150 storage. Now, smalls hold the same number of items as mediums. Why would anyone buy a medium? And for those of us who enjoy collecting things to decorate houses, 150 items is not enough to decorate a medium! This is going to lead to a glut of extra houses. here's why...
small house - 2 lots - 150 items... a crafter will use up 150 items in no time and will end up buying another small house
medium house - 2 lots - 150 items... why buy a medium when you don't get more storage??? Again, if you're a crafter, forget about decorating your medium house! Buy a small and pay less upkeep.
Large house - 6 lots - 75x6=450 items? nope! only 250! AAAARRRRGH! I decorated my main room of my large naboo and am nearly out of space! Time to buy another small! For the same number of lots, I can buy 3 smalls and get 450 items.
PA hall - 9 lots - 75x9=675 items? no way! only 250! Forget about decorating and using your pa hall for pa storage! buy 5 smalls for a whopping 750 items!
Please give us more items! Increase the lot count on mediums to 4 so they can have more items. At 75 items per lot, each person should have a max of 750 items.
250 items is not enough for a pa hall!
250 items is not enough for a large!
150 items is not enough for a medium!
150 items is just right for a small.
Yes, I was very unhappy with my purchase of a medium house...my wife (a doctor) and I store a lot of items, and needed the additional storage, and were very disappointed that we didn't get it. We were going to get a large, but I think we may end up with several smalls, even though we'd rather have stairs. 
Jamga Gibbrad
Master Ranger
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Novice Medic
Beta FAILED but SOE didnt want to lose more money on dev time. so they dropped it on the public to make their money back before the other big MMORPG's hit. Guess they figure they could fix it on the fly some how.. Well this is how they are fixing it.
House Item nerf
Drop nerfs
Less creature spawns
Mellon Nerf (the biggest tell tale)
limited factory and inventory (was much larger in beta)
No new content only removal
and many others
Vehicles and Mounts were supposed to be in launch but because of the database they couldnt handle it. They have to nerf it down then add them in. If it were up to the Devs themselves this game would still be in Development but SOE wouldnt have that. Thank SOE people.
I totally agree with you Salporin. I posted about this issue here (almost half way down):
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=architect&message.id=25314&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
I hope this gets changed.
I bought a medium cause it:
looks cooler? yes
and theres more space to place things? yes
its somthing different? yes
it takes the same amount of lots and you get a larger house? yes
sil
No, they wanted to cut cost so they went with a cheaper and crapier database. It's the reason for only having one toon per server. They wanted to save some money. They wanted more profits for them and to heck with the players.
Their decision on the database has been the cause of MANY problems in SWG. It has caused a LOT of grief for them AND us.
Anyway, that's another grip and issue but is related.
Mediums still do have some good about them.
1) They look better
2) They are bigger and have more internal room
3) They provide more room with same number of lots as smalls.
4) They take up the same footprint of a small
There is no way I could put my crafting stations in a medium and also have a living room, bedroom and workroom, etc. in a small Corellia house.